Perspective of Information Technology for Food Safety

Abstract

The word, "Kanshokufuji" created by the author, means a concept of a sound food system in a sound agro-environment. This is one of key concept for establishment of secure and sustainable food system in the next generation. It is important to recognize the all processes as a food system. The processes start from the growing condition of the agricultural, livestock and marine product, and cover production, processing, and circulation of food. The processes also contain meal, intake and metabolism of food, residue and waste management. Safety and the risk of food are consistencies. It is necessary to research various risks of coiling round food to improve the safety of food by the entire food system. Such a risk lurks in not only food but also resources and the environments such as arable land, the soil, and the water that become basic of the farming activity and agriculture that produces food. Then, the author proposes the creation of new field "risk research in foods, agriculture, resource and environment". In the field, various risks are researched from three aspects, know the risk, lower the risk, protect against the risk, overall in this research world. In the risk reduction, it is indispensable to support the worker's judgment, alert the illegal operations and record the work history. The information and communication technology accomplishes the essential role in this field.